From the ArcaMax Publishing, Vocabulary Newsletter:
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Today's Word "autodidact"

autodidact \aw-toh-DY-dakt\ (noun) - One who is self-taught.

"I'm an autodidact and a good one, because I'll kick my own (butt) if I don't learn, which is a sight to see with this leg brace." -- Dean Koontz, 'One Door Away from Heaven'

Autodidact is from Greek autodidaktos, "self-taught," from auto-, "self" + didaktos, "taught," from didaskein, "to teach."

This news arrived on: 05/05/2008

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